QZ: Chapter 39.1

Just as Ling Xiao got off from the internet, he saw Ying Feng sitting opposite to him. He did not expect him to come back. Ling Xiao’s whole body was on the alert immediately, just like an animal that raised its fur when it felt threatened.

“What? You have figured it out? Have you come back to strike me?”

“You looked for Shen He, didn’t you?” Ying Feng asked straightforwardly.

Ling Xiao’s first thought was that Ying Feng had been monitoring him again.

“Don’t you feel tired asking the same old questions to which you already know the answers? Or is it that you wish to force me to say them?”

“You are not allowed to join him.” Ying Feng simply commanded.

Ling Xiao was dumbfounded for a while, and vaguely guessed that Shen He had concealed some truth from him. Nevertheless, he was not planning to tell Ying Feng about what had happened. He jumped out of the bed and went straight to the bathroom.

“Just now, I moved my hand on impulse. You can hit me. I won’t fight back,” Ying Feng raised his voice behind him, “But, I won’t allow to you join his organization.”

Although he sounded like he was conceding in the first half of his speech, there wasn’t any trace of concession in his voice. In fact, it sounded as if he was simply being charitable to focus on the main point in his second half of speech.

Ling Xiao had already filtered out the first half of the sentences, but as soon as he heard the second half, his anger rose. He turned back and could not help but hurl a fist. Even though the torture of the past several days had consumed a lot of his physical strength, at this close range, however, Ying Feng’s nose could not possibly avoid being fractured.

However, just as Ling Xiao’s full-strength-blow was one inch away from its target, Ling Xiao’s whole body stopped moving. No matter how hard Ling Xiao tried, he could not move forward in the slightest.

Ying Feng’s going back on his word filled Ling Xiao with disdain, “You won’t be fighting back? Oh, right, controlling is not fighting back. Stop gratifying.”

“I didn’t,” Ying Feng clarified inexpressively. Despite a fist in front of his eyes, he didn’t even bat an eyelid. “I didn’t control you.”

Ling Xiao did not believe him, but he dropped his fist. He could move again! Once again, he hurled a fist, and was stopped in the same position.

“Ha!” He suddenly came to a foreboding realization, “Being a Qizi, the right to attack the Qizhu is gone even. This is really a wonderful system. Hahahaha.”

He might as well give up the notion of giving Ying Feng a punch, and he didn’t want to pay attention to what Ying Feng said next.

“If you decide to join him, you can pick either here or the prison to live in.”

Facing such blatant threat, Ling Xiao turned a deaf ear to it and went into the bathroom. What is the difference between his current state and being imprisoned?

The person in the mirror had the same appearance as that of two days ago, but he had become more tolerant. Ling Xiao thought that compared with Ying Feng, his face was probably more pleasing to the eye.

He looked into the mirror, breathed in and out, and repeated three times, “This is the last day. The first two days have passed already. There definitely won’t be a problem today.”

He reached out and then, gave a fist-bump to the person in the mirror. “Come on, Ling Xiao!”

Ling Xiao gathered his courage, grabbed a towel, and went out.

Ying Feng kept watching him spend a lot of effort trying to bind his two hands with the towel. Finally, Ling Xiao used his teeth to pull at a corner of the towel and tie a dead knot.

“What are you doing?”

Ling Xiao did not want to tell him that the night before, he almost got up to look for a knife and tried to commit suicide. The pain experienced during the previous two nights was progressively increasing. He was afraid that he would not be able to control his impulses tonight and do things he would regret.

Although he did not get an answer, Ying Feng could guess Ling Xiao’s intention. “How can a towel keep you restricted? You can easily get rid of it.”

“What you can see is just one barrier.” Ling Xiao tightened the towel once again. “But, I have three.”

Ying Feng was puzzled. “Which three?”

” I also have my determination and self-control.”

Ling Xiao finished his sentence and turned around. “Rest assured. I won’t uncontrollably roll over to you, affecting your sleep.”

The last night of the disorder period came quietly. The first night represented fear, the second night depression, the third night severe coldness. Ling Xiao wrapped up himself in a quilt. He felt as if his whole body had been frozen to ice.

More unbearable than the coldness was knowing that the source of warmth is nearby. The tangible heat source unceasingly came from the other side, and it stopped just as it was about to be passed on to him. How much he wanted to get a bit closer to the heat source. But, he subjectively killed off this impulse.

Ling Xiao pulled the blanket over his head, and wrapped himself as tightly as possible. The sound of chattering teeth became his very companion for the long and unbearable night.

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